NASA's ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: Spacecraft Commissioning with Rocket Lab

NASA's ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: Spacecraft Commissioning with Rocket Lab

"Our operators have spent recent days stabilizing spacecraft attitudes, deploying solar arrays, checking guidance and navigation systems, and powering up all flight computers and antennas on Blue and Gold as they begin their journey to Mars for NASA's ESCAPADE mission." 

"Take a look at what goes on behind the scenes in mission control."

The twin spacecraft for NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission were manufactured by Rocket Lab:

https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/escapade/

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launched NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) twin-spacecraft into its designated orbit on November 13, 2025, from Cape Canaveral.

The NASA Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) Mars Mission will study the planet's unique hybrid magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. It will take ESCAPADE about 11 months to arrive at Mars after leaving Earth orbit.

ESCAPADE is led by the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. It is responsible for mission management, systems engineering, science leadership, navigation, operations, the electron and ion electrostatic analyzers, plus science data processing and archiving.

Key partners are Rocket Lab USA (spacecraft), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (magnetometers), Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (Langmuir probes), Advanced Space LLC (mission design), and Blue Origin (launch).

Learn more about the two identical spacecraft designed, built, integrated, and tested by Rocket Lab for the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA's Mars Mission:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade
https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu

🚀Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket:

https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn

Video Credit: Rocket Lab
Duration: 1 minute, 51 seconds
Release Date: Nov 26, 2025

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Journey to Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 in Cetus | Hubble Space Telescope

Journey to Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 in Cetus | Hubble Space Telescope

This video zooms from an image of constellation of Cetus (the Sea Monster) into a closeup of the galaxy NGC 1073, imaged by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is thought to have a similar barred spiral shape, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 can help astronomers learn more about our celestial home.

Distance: 55 million light years from Earth

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Digitized Sky Survey 2, Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

Duration: 56 seconds
Release Date: Feb. 3, 2012

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Close-up: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 in Cetus | Hubble Space Telescope

Close-up: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 in Cetus | Hubble Space Telescope

The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073. It is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is thought to be a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies, such as NGC 1073, can help astronomers learn more about our celestial home.

Distance: 55 million light years from Earth

Credit: NASA & European Space Agency (ESA)

Duration: 30 seconds
Release Date: Feb. 3, 2012

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Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and The Milky Way over China

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and The Milky Way over China

What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best? One example is pictured here, featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China's southwestern Yunnan province. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best earlier this month, showing not only a white dust tail trailing off to the right but its blue solar wind-distorted ion tail trailing off to the left. Far in the distance on the left is the magnificent central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, featuring dark dust, red nebula, and including billions of Sun-like stars. 

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is already fading as it heads back into the outer Solar System, while the Himalayan mountains will gradually erode over the next billion years. The Milky Way Galaxy, though, will live on, forming new mountains and comets, for many billions of years into the future. Comet Lemmon passed nearest to the Earth—about half the Earth-Sun distance—on October 21, 2025.

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has examples of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than 100 peaks exceeding elevations of 7,200 m (23,600 ft) above sea level lie in the Himalayas. The Himalayas abut on or cross territories of six countries: Nepal, India, China, Bhutan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Yunnan is an inland province in southwestern China. The province borders the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, autonomous regions of Guangxi and Tibet, as well as Southeast Asian countries Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, and Laos.

Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan (Tsinghua University)
Release Date: Nov. 25, 2025

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Globular Star Cluster Messier 15 in Pegasus (Deep field image)

Globular Star Cluster Messier 15 in Pegasus (Deep field image)

Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster Messier 15 (M15) or NGC 7078. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center. M15, one of about 150 globular clusters remaining, is noted for being easily visible with only binoculars, having at its center one of the densest concentrations of stars known, and containing a high abundance of variable stars and pulsars. 

This image of M15 was taken by combining very long exposures—122 hours in all—and so brings up faint wisps of gas and dust in front of the giant ball of stars. M15 lies about 35,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Winged Horse (Pegasus).

Image Credit & Copyright: Alvaro Ibanez Perez

Alvaro Ibanez Perez's website: 

https://aipastroimaging.com/sobre-mi/
Release Date: Nov. 26, 2025

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 in Cetus | Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1073 in Cetus | Hubble Space Telescope

The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073. It is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is thought to be a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies, such as NGC 1073, can help astronomers learn more about our celestial home.

Distance: 55 million light years from Earth

Credit: NASA & European Space Agency (ESA)
Release Date: Feb. 3, 2012

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Gulf of California & Mexico's Baja California Peninsula | International Space Station

Gulf of California & Mexico's Baja California Peninsula | International Space Station

The Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, separates mainland Mexico from the Baja California Peninsula in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above California. Geologically, it is Earth’s youngest sea, formed around 5 million years ago due to tectonic activity. In 2005, the Gulf was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in recognition of its unique oceanographic processes and extraordinary biodiversity.

The Gulf of California is bordered by the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa with a coastline of approximately 4,000 km (2,500 mi). 

Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico

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Expedition 73 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)
JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov
NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Date: Oct. 1, 2025

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Wide-field view of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus

Wide-field view of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus

This image from a ground-based telescope shows the region surrounding NGC 1055, seen side-on, in the lower right-hand corner. Can you spot it? The spiral galaxy at the center of this picture is NGC 1073 in the Cetus constellation.

Several other galaxies are also visible here, such as Messier 77 located nearly at the bottom of the frame.

The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a ground-based imaging survey of the entire sky in several colors of light produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) through its Guide Star Survey group.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Digitized Sky Survey 2 

Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Image Credit: Feb. 3, 2012

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1055 in Cetus

Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe spans over 100,000 light-years, a little larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. The colorful, spiky stars decorating this cosmic portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way. Notice the pinkish star forming regions and young blue star clusters scattered through winding dust lanes along the distant galaxy's thin disk. With a smattering of even more distant background galaxies, the deep image also reveals a boxy halo that extends far above and below the central bulge and disk of NGC 1055. The halo itself is laced with faint, narrow structures, and could represent the mixed and spread out debris from a satellite galaxy disrupted by the larger spiral some 10 billion years ago.

Image Credit & Copyright: John Hayes

John's website: 

https://app.astrobin.com/u/jhayes_tucson
Release Date: Nov. 27, 2025

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The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus: NGC 6888

The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus: NGC 6888

NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is about 25 light-years across. It is a cosmic bubble blown by winds from its central, massive star. This deep telescopic image includes narrowband image data, to isolate light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The oxygen atoms produce the blue-green hue that seems to enshroud the nebula's detailed folds and filaments. Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. In fact, the Crescent Nebula's complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life, this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion. Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away.

Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Bass

Greg's website: 

https://app.astrobin.com/u/1loosetooth#gallery
Release Date: Nov. 28, 2025

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'Frosty' Aurora over Anchorage, Alaska

'Frosty' Aurora over Anchorage, Alaska

Astrophotographer Todd Salat: ". . . Caught a nice little aurora dancing over Anchorage, Alaska, last night for about 15 minutes and took this shot from our back deck at 12:30 am on November 25, 2025."

Auroras are produced when the Earth's magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in the form of electrons and protons, precipitate them into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere) due to Earth's magnetic field, where their energy is lost. The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emits light of varying color and complexity. [Wikipedia]

Earth auroras have different names depending on the pole they occur at. Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights, is the name given to auroras around the north pole and Aurora Australis, or the southern lights, is the name given for auroras around the south pole.

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state in the United States. It borders the Canadian territory of the Yukon and the province of British Columbia to the east. It shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north, and the Pacific Ocean lies to the south.

Image Credit: Todd Salat 

Todd's website: https://www.aurorahunter.com

Date: Nov. 25, 2025 

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Russian Soyuz MS-28 Crew Spacecraft after Docking | International Space Station

Russian Soyuz MS-28 Crew Spacecraft after Docking | International Space Station

Expedition 73 Flight Engineer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Astronaut Kimiya Yui: "Hello, everyone! Three new crew members have arrived at the ISS aboard the Soyuz spacecraft!  In this photo, too, the two spacecraft are parked side by side so amicably, aren't they? With 10 crew members on the ISS during the handover period, it's quite lively.  I fondly remember how enjoyable the handover period with Mr. Onishi and the others was."

The crewed Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft safely reached orbit and docked with the International Space Station for a planned eight-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), following a launch at 4:27 a.m. EST (2:27 p.m. Baikonur time) on Thursday, November 27, 2025, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (Russia) and Sergei Mikaev (Russia) aboard.

NASA astronaut Christopher Williams Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-christopher-l-williams/

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Expedition 73 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)
JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov
NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/K. Yui

Date: Nov. 27, 2025

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Waiting for Soyuz | International Space Station

Waiting for Soyuz | International Space Station

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Expedition 73 Flight Engineer and NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim: "Expedition 73 crew excited to watch the launch of MS-28 Soyuz crew with our friends Chris Williams, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev aboard, as we passed overhead . . ."

The crewed Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft safely reached orbit and headed for the International Space Station for a planned eight-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), following a launch at 4:27 a.m. EST (2:27 p.m. Baikonur time) on Thursday, November 27, 2025, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (Russia) and Sergei Mikaev (Russia) aboard.

NASA astronaut Christopher Williams Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-christopher-l-williams/

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Expedition 73 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)
JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov
NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: Roscosmos

Duration: 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Date: Nov. 27, 2025

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Cloudy with a Chance of Star Formation: Nearby Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy

Cloudy with a Chance of Star Formation: Nearby Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy

This is an image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy that appears cloud-like in the Southern Hemisphere. This image was captured by photographer Petr Horálek, a NOIRLab Audiovisual Ambassador, using a wide-aperture telephoto lens on a commercial camera. Petr photographed the LMC over about four hours during three nights on Cerro Pachón in Chile, home of Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) NOIRLab. 

The LMC is one of the 60+ satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Satellite galaxies are usually smaller than their host galaxy. Case in point, the LMC consists of around 20 billion stars, while our Milky Way galaxy holds between 100–400 billion stars. The LMC is also considered an irregular galaxy because of its indistinct shape. Its central bright bar is geometrically off-center, which has led astronomers to believe this galaxy was once a barred spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way. The LMC’s once well-defined spiral arms have been warped by the pull of gravity, likely from the Milky Way and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), another dwarf galaxy visible near the LMC.

Like most irregular galaxies, the LMC is a prime site for star formation. It even hosts the most active star-forming region among our nearby galaxies, the nebula Doradus 30 (Tarantula Nebula). The LMC also has an extra advantage: the more massive LMC has been observed to “steal” gas and stars from the neighboring SMC. As the stellar materials are pulled from the SMC, they collide with the LMC’s own materials and form an intergalactic gaseous bridge between the clouds. These collisions pressurize and concentrate the gas, making star formation much more likely in the LMC and the bridge itself.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
Release Date: Nov. 19, 2025

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Black Hole Enviroments Explained | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Black Hole Enviroments Explained | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

If light cannot escape black holes, how do we know where they are? The regions around them tell an incredible story. From blazing coronas and swirling accretion disks to powerful jets that stretch millions of miles, these extreme environments reveal black holes' secrets and how these mysterious objects affect the universe.

Join host Sophia Roberts as she talks with researchers Jenna Cann and Cecilia Chirenti at NASA Goddard about how scientists study these unusual structures, the challenges of observing the unseeable, and the discoveries that continue to change our understanding of black holes.

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Duration: 10 minutes
Release Date: Nov. 28, 2025

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Expedition 74 Launch Day: Behind The Scenes (Extended) | International Space Station

Expedition 74 Launch Day: Behind The Scenes (Extended) | International Space Station

A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with two Russians and an American on Thursday, November 27, 2025. The Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:28 pm Moscow time (0928 GMT).

The crew included Russian commander Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, making his second spaceflight, fellow Russian cosmonaut Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, both flying to space for the first time.

After lift-off, the Soyuz was scheduled to orbit the Earth twice before performing an automated docking with the ISS Rassvet module at 1238 GMT later on Thursday.

The trio are due to spend the next eight months aboard the ISS. Their return to Earth is currently planned for late July 2026.

NASA astronaut Christopher Williams Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-christopher-l-williams/

Selected as a candidate in 2021, Williams graduated with the 23rd astronaut class in 2024. He began training for his first space station flight assignment immediately after completing initial astronaut candidate training. Williams was working as a clinical physicist and researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston when he was selected as an astronaut candidate.

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Expedition 73 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)
JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov
NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Video Credit: ShanghaiEye
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: Nov. 27, 2025

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